The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-14
The first bale of new cotton from

The first bale of new cotton from
Georgia is on exhibition in front of the
New York Cotton Exchange.
- The Piute Indians OF Nevada DO
not fade away before the pale faces. On
the contrary, they have increased nearly
1000 in number since 1880.
- 1t is now said that the hanging of
Gov. Gordon in efigy at Dalton, Ga,
was the work of party of drunken men
who did it more as rough joke than for
any definite purpose.
= The new capitol of Texas is to be in
the shape of Greek cross, with rotunda
and tall dome at the intersection of the
main corridors. 1t is 562 feet long and
2SS feet in greatest width, classical in
style, and approximating to the National
capitol at Washington. 1t will be the
largest State capitol in the Union.
During thunder storm on Thurs
day in Edge6eld county Miss Sallie
Barnes, 16 years old, was at the we'll
drawing bucket of water when she was
struck by bolt of lightning and instant.
ly killed. Miss Barnes was the daughter
of wel.to do farmer and vas the belle
of the neighborhood.
The forthcoming marriage of the
Emperor of China is officially announced.
His wife has been selected. The festiv-
tiles will cost e1,000,000. Numerous
changes are expected in the Imperial
Government.
= Ellicott City, Nd, has confirmed
smoker who is only years old, and still
attended by nurse. He smoked cigar
recently for an hour or more and showed
no signs of sickness. The little fellow
has contracted the habit from his older
brother.
An English paper tells wild tale
about an old German who has invented
safe, that on its lock being tampered
with throws open its doors, seizes and
drags and locks in the burglar, and
handouts and holds him in readiness to
be conducted to the police Court in the
morning.
A Perham (Minn.) special says !;
"The country is alive with locusts.
Trees, walls and buildings are covered
with the creatures. They are crushed
under foot on the sidewalks and in the
streets. High in the air every clear day
when the wind is strong millions of them
can be seen going as the wind carries
them. Crops in Perham are dead loss.
Ten thousand acres can already be count.
ed as destroyed. Vegetation in places is
devoured to the root"
-Ephriam Jones and Sam Breen
were terribly whipped by mob at Grays.
vile, Ca, on Wednesday morning.
Breen had circulated stories derogatory
to the character of q respectable young
woman, and the friends of the latter
organized to punish her calumniator.
After being whipped almost to death
Breen vas ordered to leave town within
"a hours. He was told that an attempt
to arrest one Of the mob meant Certain
DEATH" and he finally decided to depart
as soon as possible.
- General Pickett led FIVE thousand
men in the desperate assault on Cemetery
hill. They pierced the federal lines and
planted their battle flags on the federal
works. Generals Garrett. Kemper, and
Armistead were killed. Of twenty four
regimental officers, only Two escaped.
Some idea of the frightful slaughter of
the men may be gathered from the fact
that the Ninth Virginia regiment went
into the charge with two hundred and
fifty men, and came out with twenty.
eight.
The augusta Neaus says: Those
silly Dalton people who, on yesterday,
hanged Governor Gordon in efligy be.
cause he commuted the death sentence
of Holman to imprisonment for life, will
live to regret their acts. 1t was child'a
play, and the public at large is heartily
ashamed of it. There is no doubt in the
world that when all the facts are known,
it will be seen that Governor Gordon
acted just as ninety.nine men in a hum
dred would have done under similar cir.
cumstances. 1t is to be regretted that
the people of Dalton and Whitfield
County have so far forgotten themselves
in this matter as to bring this reproach
upon their fair name.
= The Baltimore American says that
when Harper, the Cincinnati bank break
er, was thrown into prison and his friends
turned away, his wife, as soon as she
heard the sad news, rushed to him with
words of comfort and tears of sympathy.
Not word of reproach did she utter.
Throughout all of Jacob Sharp's trial his
aged wife has attended him like guar
dian angel, has suffered more than words
can tell, and has given up everything for
him. Ah, men, you may speak lightly
of your wives at times, but when trouble
comes to you they are as sunlight from
heaven.
= w. S. Stockton, of the Seventy. first
Pennsylvania Regiment, makes the fol-
lowing statement, which recites another
incident of the kind spirit of the boys in
blue: GAS quick as members of the
Philadelphia Brigade learned that Pick.
ett's Division had voted to defray the
expenses of Mrs. Pickett incurred at
Gettysburg they promptly notified tile
men of the division that both Mrs. Pick
EFT and her son were considered guests of
the Philadelphia Brigade, and that they
deemed it their privilege and pleasure to
care for the lady whom they all honored
and who had contributed 80 much to the
happiness of the reception. The expen.
ses of the wife and son were promptly
met by the Philadelphia hosts"
= The New York Sun admits that
public sentiment, no less in the North
than in the South, draws the color line,
whether it be in the case of o church,
theatre or watering place. 1t says that
this "is the state of things long after
emancipation and enfranchisement, and
there does not seem to be any lessening
of the race prejudice at the North.
Apparently it is as strong now as it ever
was, and the tendency of the negroes to
keep by themselves is stronger than for.
merly, 80 that the African type becomes
more decided. Neither political equality
nor religion itself has been able to con.
quer this race prejudice, and lapse of time
does not seem to even mitigate it,"
When this condition of things comes to
be recognized with candor at the North
generally, there will be more marked
disposition to commit unchallenged to
the South the solution of those peculiar
problems affecting the races here with
which we have to deal.